Founder, chairman and CEO of Ardesta, an Ann Arbor-based investment firm, 2000-present; founder of Avalon Investments Inc., a venture capital company, 1997-2000; executive vice president and then president and COO of Gateway Inc., 1991-1997

Associate professor of law, Wayne State University, 2005-present; clerked for 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Damon Keith, October 2004-August 2005; author of the book, “Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process.”